Franco Ordonez

They're down in the polls.

Trump is very much down in the polls.

And a lot of the criticism is that the president of the United States is focusing too much attention on.

on foreign policy issues and not domestic issues.

He's focusing too much on the issues he promised his supporters that he would be getting the United States out of.

So this lack of messaging to the American people could really come back to bite him.

Because when I talk to Republican strategists, they tell me if he would just do that, at least people would kind of have an understanding of why he is doing this.

And perhaps that would maybe insulate Republican candidates in the midterms from taking all of the blame if it goes wrong, because then they could say, well, at least we understood why he did that.

I disagreed.

But but we understand this way, not explaining.

I think it just opens it up for even more anger and more people to be disappointed and and just just confused about about the U.S.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's growing pessimism inside the White House and across the administration about, you know, reaching a resolution anytime soon.

that said, you know, the U.S.

is very much involved.

I mean, clearly Trump's invested.

He has his two most trusted people working on this issue, his envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who were obviously, you know, at front and center for negotiations in Gaza.

And we were just talking about Iran.

You know, he hasn't farmed it off to someone in a lesser role.

So I

I think this is definitely something he still wants to resolve.